The Lost Cause

The article studies the Irish Catholics fighting for the South and their association with the Lost Cause. Taking a look at a select few Irishmen, the article studies their intimate involvement with the Lost Cause. The article offers an ethnic view of the Lost Cause through the eyes of the Irish Catholics. They were a contradiction in the respect to slavery, for the Irish didn't necessarily include it in their view of the Lost Cause.
The article by Robert Curran provides an ethnic perspective of the Lost Cause that links the myth to Ireland. The Irish were attached more to the fight against authority which was the government whether in Ireland or in the South. There is a religious element of the Irish Catholics that links them to the religious